Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award FinalistA thoughtful new collection of poems one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be gooda good person a good citizen a good teacher a good poet a good father.ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10With These Trees Those Leaves This Flower That Fruit Hayan Charara presents readers with a medley of ambitious analyses written in characteristically wry verse. He takes philosophers to task jousts with academics and scrutinizes hollow gestures of empathy exposing the dangers of thinking ourselves ampampquotseparate from our thoughts and experiences.ampampquot After all ampampamp8220No work of love will flourish out of guilt fear or hollowness of heart.ampampamp8221 But how do we act on fullness of heart How knowing as we do that ampampamp8220genocide is inscribed in our earliest and holiest textsampampamp8221ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10Thoughtful but never preachy Charara sits beside us granting us access to lifes countless unglamorous dilemmas crushing a spider when we promised we wouldnampampamp8217t nearing madness from a newbornampampamp8217s weeping resenting our lovers for what happened in a dream. ampampamp8220Good poems demand to be written from inside the poetampampamp8221 we are reminded.